HIV-1 protease

HIV-1 Protease (Retropepsin)

HIV-1 protease dimer in white and grey, with peptide substrate in black and active site aspartate side chains in red. (PDB: 1KJF​)
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EC number 3.4.23.16
CAS number 144114-21-6
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HIV-1 protease is a retroviral aspartyl protease (retropepsin) that is essential for the life-cycle of HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS.[1][2] HIV protease cleaves newly synthesized polyproteins at the appropriate places to create the mature protein components of an infectious HIV virion. Without effective HIV protease, HIV virions remain uninfectious.[3][4] Thus, mutation of HIV protease's active site or inhibition of its activity disrupts HIV’s ability to replicate and infect additional cells,[5] making HIV protease inhibition the subject of considerable pharmaceutical research. [6]

Structure and function

HIV-1 protease labelled according to its resemblance to an English Bulldog or a fat cat.[7] The blue and cyan-green ribbons depict the peptide backbone of a wild-type (1D4S​) and a mutant (1KZK​) structure, respectively.

HIV protease's protein structure has been investigated using X-ray crystallography. It exists as a homodimer, with each subunit made up of 99 amino acids.[1]

The active site lies between the identical subunits and has the characteristic Asp-Thr-Gly (Asp25, Thr26 and Gly27) sequence common to aspartic proteases. The two Asp25 residues (one from each chain) act as the catalytic residues. According to the mechanism for HIV protease protein cleavage proposed by Mariusz Jaskolski and colleagues, water acts as a nucleophile, which acts in simultaneous conjunction with a well-placed aspartic acid to hydrolyze the scissile peptide bond.[8] Additionally, HIV protease has two molecular "flaps" which move a distance of up to 7 Å when the enzyme becomes associated with a substrate.[9]

HIV-1 protease as a drug target

The HIV-1 protease dimer (green and cyan) with active site Asp-25 in red.
Complexed with a polypeptide substrate (magenta). (PDB: 1KJF​)
Complexed with inhibitor BEA369 (depicted as a sticks with carbon in white, nitrogen in blue, oxygen in red). (PDB: 1EBY​)

With its integral role in HIV replication, HIV protease has been a prime target for drug therapy. HIV protease inhibitors work by specifically binding to the active site by mimicking the tetrahedral intermediate of its substrate and essentially becoming “stuck,” disabling the enzyme. After assembly and budding, viral particles lacking active protease cannot mature into infectious virions. Several protease inhibitors have been licensed for HIV therapy.[10]

HIV-1 Protease has the classic AspThrGly of Aspartyl Proteases. These amino acids are located at position 25, 26, and 27, and are responsible for the catalytic activity.

However, due to the high mutation rates of retroviruses, and considering that changes to a few amino acids within HIV protease can render it much less visible to an inhibitor, the active site of this enzyme can change rapidly when under the selective pressure of replication-inhibiting drugs.[11]

One approach to minimizing the development of drug-resistance in HIV is to administer a combination of drugs which inhibit several key aspects of the HIV replication cycle simultaneously, rather than one drug at a time. Other drug therapy targets include reverse transcriptase, virus attachment, membrane fusion, cDNA integration and virion assembly.[12][13]

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References

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  4. ↑ Kohl NE, Emini EA, Schleif WA, et al. (July 1988). "Active human immunodeficiency virus protease is required for viral infectivity". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85 (13): 4686–90. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.13.4686. PMC 280500. PMID 3290901.
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  7. ↑ Perryman AL, Lin JH, McCammon JA (April 2004). "HIV-1 protease molecular dynamics of a wild-type and of the V82F/I84V mutant: possible contributions to drug resistance and a potential new target site for drugs" (PDF). Protein Sci. 13 (4): 1108–23. doi:10.1110/ps.03468904. PMC 2280056. PMID 15044738. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  8. ↑ Jaskólski M, Tomasselli AG, Sawyer TK, Staples DG, Heinrikson RL, Schneider J, Kent SB, Wlodawer A (February 1991). "Structure at 2.5-A resolution of chemically synthesized human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease complexed with a hydroxyethylene-based inhibitor". Biochemistry 30 (6): 1600–9. doi:10.1021/bi00220a023. PMID 1993177.
  9. ↑ Miller M, Schneider J, Sathyanarayana BK, Toth MV, Marshall GR, Clawson L, Selk L, Kent SB, Wlodawer A (December 1989). "Structure of complex of synthetic HIV-1 protease with a substrate-based inhibitor at 2.3 A resolution". Science 246 (4934): 1149–52. doi:10.1126/science.2686029. PMID 2686029.
  10. ↑ Rang, H. P., Dale, M. M., Ritter, J. M., & Flower, R. J. (2007). Rang and Dale's Pharmacology (6th Edition ed.). Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.
  11. ↑ Watkins T, Resch W, Irlbeck D, Swanstrom R (February 2003). "Selection of high-level resistance to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease inhibitors". Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 47 (2): 759–69. doi:10.1128/AAC.47.2.759-769.2003. PMC 151730. PMID 12543689.
  12. ↑ Moore JP, Stevenson M (October 2000). "New targets for inhibitors of HIV-1 replication". Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 1 (1): 40–9. doi:10.1038/35036060. PMID 11413488.
  13. ↑ De Clercq E (December 2007). "The design of drugs for HIV and HCV". Nat Rev Drug Discov 6 (12): 1001–18. doi:10.1038/nrd2424. PMID 18049474.
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